Curated river of news
Latest posts from blogs I follow
Starting with v2.0, scheduled for fall 2026, DuckDB will support asynchronous reads of Parquet and CSV files. This can significantly speed up queries when synchronous I/O does not saturate the available bandwidth, as is typical in EC2/S3 compute-storage setups.
What the Singularity Actually Means/images/what-the-singularity-actually-means.webp/images/what-the-singularity-actually-means.webp The singularity might be my favorite idea in all of AI, and it has a real, specific meaning that I find way more interesting than the way the word usually gets used. ...
Noting perhaps my largest personal career accomplishment, which is launching CodePen 2.0. Far more work, believe it or not, than the entire creation of the original CodePen. This isn’t the place to describe every detail of what we did and ...
Before friendslop, there was friendgolf. Sorry, Golf With Your Friends. Released in early access in 2016, Blacklight Interactive’s devilishly competitive crazy golf sim ended up joining Among Us as a Covid lockdown darling, allowing those of us bored with pretending ...
Today's links The stupidest imaginable excuses for surveillance pricing: Since 1850, San Francisco's Chamber of Commerce has been pissing in our mouths and calling it rain. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: RIP Wau Holland; Diebold voting ...
When I'm AFK, I want to just create issues and reply to them and have an agent spin up, do stuff, and wind down. order_taker seems to do that p well. https://github.com/searlsco/order_taker
These are my recently read books and some comments and notes from when I read them. As I love books and recommendations by others, I want to share them in a collective format so others can read gems of books, ...
The Answer to the Harness Question/images/the-answer-to-the-harness-question.webp/images/the-answer-to-the-harness-question.webp Martin Casado posted something about AI harnesses that captures where a lot of smart people are stuck right now. On harnesses, I vacillate between three beliefs: the...
There's a story that goes something like this: In 1925, lightbulb manufactures secretly colluded to standardized lifespans at 1,000 hours. They would test each other's products to ensure compliance. This is true. At the time, many bulbs lasted longer than ...
Every zeitgeist comes with new design idioms unique to its challenges. Many of them disappear as fads change, but others bake themselves into deeper parts of existing software interaction paradigms. For example, there’s the hamburger menu (≡) which saw a ...
This article has been revised since it was first published, to correct several significant technical inaccuracies in the original text. Kubernetes has long been the default platform for distributed workloads, and writing your own controller for it is now a ...
I’d put my six-pounder anti-tank guns in the perfect position to halt the Tigers’ advance. The German tanks would have to cross the bridge, keeping them packed together, and the derailed train on their flank would keep them from spreading ...
Today's links Enshittification and Reverse Centaurs go global: The good globalism. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Fonz thumps x Linux; CBC v DRM; Aussie mall v photos; English town x CCTVs; Pay no taxes x Big ...
CrUX’s seasonal decline, Safari 27’s user-experience fixes, richer INP attribution, and long-session third-party costs all demand better interpretation.
I've been experimenting with GPT 5.6 + OpenCode for the past couple weeks, running GPT 5.6 Sol through OpenAI's $100/month ChatGPT Pro (5x) plan. Before this I only used the Claude Max plans for perso...
Terminal Trove Talks with Miguel de Icaza, the creator of Midnight Commander (mc), La Terminal, SwiftTerm, TermKit and Xogot.
A TUI to manage GitLab and GitHub projects.
The View from the Office. I met up with Jack Forehand, co-host of the Excess Returns podcast, at the Bryant Park cafe. I had the quinoa salad. Jack had a grilled chicken and Swiss sandwich. We were introduced by Sunpointe ...
I’ve had the pleasure in my career of sitting in tons of different board rooms talking with executives and getting a rundown on different charts and graphs they care most deeply about. As expected, “number chart go up” is always ...
Today's links Discernment: How can you fact-check AI when you're asking it to teach you something you don't understand? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: How to help with computers; Batman equation; Fuck and the law; NC's ...
Topics covered in this episode: Some more things about Django I've been enjoying Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party? Where Did All Your AI Tokens Go? AgentsView to the rescue! Careful with phishing all Extras Joke Watch on YouTube ...
Originally published on Rails At Scale. We recently enabled a really cool feature in ZJIT that makes it feel like a Real Compiler™: the inliner! We’ll write more about it soon. In this post, we’ll talk about one excellent concrete ...
Jason Grigsby has a great article where he surfaces an opinion from the Safari team about how AI agents shouldn’t get special treatment: An agent acting on a user’s behalf is, in effect, assistive technology: it should operate a site ...
The View from the Office. I caught up with Eric Pachman, founder of Data 4 the People, via Zoom. He was at home in Dayton, Ohio, where he moved in 2016. Eric is building an AI-assisted platform designed to lower ...
After a long absence I’m back coding with Sublime Text. I can’t remember when or why I switched to VS Code. I moved to VSCodium for a short period last year and then gave Zed a spin. These modern apps ...
Today's links How the EU can punish Google (despite Trump): Grant me the courage to change the things I can. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Chilling Effects; Billy Bragg v Myspace; Glenn Beck calls murdered Norwegian ...
The recently published RFC 9421 describes how to do HTTP Message Signatures, and starting just now, curl experimentally supports them. Message Signatures The specification describes this as a mechanism for creating, encoding, and verifying digital signatures or message authentication codes ...
In the same way that correct software architecture can bring many benefits in terms of costs and performance, a good architecture for infrastructure can significantly improve the reliability and reduce
CodePen v2 is now released! Because I co-host a podcast with Chris I’ve had an up-close perspective at this monumental effort over the last five years. I know how much work has gone into this release and I applaud the ...
For years, "Django and async" came with an asterisk. The docs themselves warned you off it. Scary performance notes, a story that felt half-finished. Well, that story just got rewritten, literally, and the person who rewrote it is here to ...
Measure how entire components render with the Container Timing API: how it differs from Element Timing, where it helps, and how to try it today.
Sundays are for sobbingly lifting exactly one boulder from the groaning dreampile that is my backlog. Good news, Vacuity, cpt_freakout and the rest – I'm trying out your precious, precious Troubleshooter game. I hear it's a hundred hours long, so ...
Lightning CSS is not fit for purpose. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ It’s practically impossible to control what CSS is actually output. The documentation and config are infuriating on missing details. It’s not a problem until it’s a problem. As soon as you ...
Integration, studies, parenthood, the small things
The View from the Office. I met up with Kaelan Yim, a rising junior studying computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, at the Bryant Park Cafe. He had quesadillas; I had the sliders. Kaelan grew up in the ...
The internet is going to be remembered as a giant petri dish of social contagion.